The Asia Pacific is home to nearly half the world's population, a growing middle class and holds so much opportunity for us all.

We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.

I don't have a philosophical objection, necessarily, to a travel ban if that is the thing that is going to keep the American people safe.

When I turn over the keys to the president-elect, America will be much stronger than it was when I came into office.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

As president of the United States, I don't bluff.